Martin Denton News

Celebrate the 40th anniversary of one of New York's renowned acting studios with a discussion on actors and Off-Off-Broadway. Terry Schreiber, founder of Terry Schreiber Studios, and Peter Jensen, an actor and the associate artistic director at Terry Schreiber Studios, discuss teaching, directing and mentoring such notables as Edward Norton, Peter Sarsgaard, Annabella Sciorra and others.

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU), Audience Extras and Back Stage will host the industry panel Who Can I Turn To? Resources to Make Your Producing Life Easier on Wednesday, June 17 at 7:30pm at The Players Theatre, 115 MacDougal Street (below W. 3rd Street), NYC.

P.S. 122 and The Amoralists present a return engagement of The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side, written and directed by Derek Ahonen. The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side runs from June 5th to 28th, 2009 at Performance Space 122 (downstairs), located at 150 1st Avenue (at East 9th Street) in NYC. Official opening is June 5th.

Following the success of Martin Dockery's The Surprise in terraNOVA Collective's soloNOVA Arts Festival, The DR2 Theatre and terraNOVA Collective have chosen Martin Dockery to return for a special encore run of The Surprise along with his sold out hit of the Orlando Fringe Festival, Wanderlust, June 4-6 at the DR2 Theater (103 East 15th Street).

P.S. 122 and The Amoralists present a return engagement of The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side, written and directed by Derek Ahonen. The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side runs from June 5th to 28th, 2009 at Performance Space 122 (downstairs), located at 150 1st Avenue (at East 9th Street) in NYC. Official opening is June 5th.

The eight misfit members of Romeo, Vermont's glee club are on the verge of meltdown after their soloist makes the disastrous decision to save his own life. Will they be ready in time for the big recital? And isn't music the most important thing? GLEE CLUB is a comedy about singing. Singing makes people happy.

Opening Night for THE SECRET OF O-SONO this Thursday, March 26, at 7:30pm Get your tickets now and join us that evening to celebrate this world premiere! We'll have a post-show reception with the cast, and complimentary wine and sushi!

The award winning Electric Pear Productions presents the third annual round of SYNESTHESIA, the ambitious performance piece that takes an unforgettable look at how artists influence, inspire and steal from each other. It is a peak inside the dirty work of creation through the schoolyard game of telephone...with art. Synesthesia is the culmination of five months of work by over a dozen breakout artists spanning 11 different genres including film, dance, comedy, photography, music, spoken word, puppetry, and even chocolate making; this year's presentation will be held Febuary 25th - 28th at Electric Pear's new home, The Wild Project (195 East Third Street, between Avenues A & B). Tickets are $20 and can be purchased by phone at 212-352-3101 or online at www.electricpear.org In the fall of 2008 the first artist Aja Money, slam poet and 2008 Hollywood Grand Slam Champion, chose a fortune cookie and used the enclosed fortune to inspire her work. After a few days of furious work, she passed his work off to a painter, and in turn, the painter created a piece of art that was passed on to the next artist - and so on, and so on...

Metropolitan Playhouse, the East Village company committed to exploring contemporary America through its theatrical past, presents the first New York revival of Power by Arthur Arent, a ?Living Newspaper? developed through the WPA?s Federal Theater Project. First presented at the Ritz Theater (now the Walter Kerr) in 1937, Power will be revived in Metropolitan?s home theater at 220 E 4th Street) March 14th through April 12th, 2009.

Columbia University School of the Arts Theatre Arts Program and Columbia Stages Present MASTERPIECES: Part Two of SPRING, a Series of Three Springtime Events Celebrating Columbia's M.F.A. Playwriting Class of 2009 Columbia University School of the Arts Theatre Arts Program and Columbia Stages present MASTERPIECES, the second event in SPRING, a celebration in three parts of Columbia's M.F.A. Playwriting Class of 2009. In MASTERPIECES, each playwright presents a staged reading of a full-length play in various locations around New York City.

The Nonsense Company performs Great Hymn of Thanksgiving / Conversation Storm, an award-winning pair of intricate and urgent pieces blurring the boundary between experimental theater and avant-garde music, both written by internationally-known composer and company member Rick Burkhardt. The Company performs from February 5-15, with previews on February 3 and 4, at the Interborough Repertory Theater (IRT), 154 Christopher St. 3B.

The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation, the organization dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway is pleased to announce that applications for the 2009 Honorary Awards are available online now and are due by 6pm on May 1, 2009. Now in their 5th year, the IT Awards have honored over 500 of the brightest and most influential artists from the Off-Off-Broadway community. The Honorary Awards are: * The Artistic Achievement Award, presented to an individual who has made a significant artistic contribution to the Off-Off-Broadway community;

The Clockwork Theatre is pleased to announce the cast for their upcoming production of CHERRY SMOKE by JAMES McMANUS (winner of the 2006 Princess Grace Playwriting Award), directed by JADE KING CARROLL. The title role of Cherry will be portrayed by MARIANNA McCLELLAN, with JAY ROHLOFF playing opposite her in the role of Fish. Mr. Rohloff, who serves as Clockwork's Artistic Director, was most recently seen in the company's revival of Caryl Churchill's A Number at Theatre Row in September, 2008, for which he received praise for portraying a man and two very unique clones of that man.

Shortened Attention Span Theatre and Wide Eyed Productions are proud to present a special post-show Talk-Back with Martin Denton of nytheatre.com, following the January 25th, 3pm matinee performance of The Spin Cycle: 5 Plays by Jerrod Bogard. The Talk-Back will include playwright Jerrod Bogard and the directors of The Spin Cycle. The Spin Cycle will be performed Thursday through Saturday at 8pm with a special Sunday matinee performance on January 25th. Tickets for this and all performances can be purchased at www.TheaterMania.com, or call 212-352-3101. Tickets are $18.00.

The award winning Electric Pear Productions presents the third annual round of SYNESTHESIA, the ambitious performance piece that takes an unforgettable look at how artists influence, inspire and steal from each other. It is a peak inside the dirty work of creation through the schoolyard game of telephone...with art. Synesthesia is the culmination of five months of work by over a dozen breakout artists spanning 11 different genres including film, dance, comedy, photography, music, spoken word, puppetry, and even chocolate making; this year's presentation will be held Febuary 25th - 28th at Electric Pear's new home, The Wild Project (195 East Third Street, between Avenues A & B). Tickets are $20 and can be purchased by phone at 212-352-3101 or online at www.electricpear.org In the fall of 2008 the first artist Aja Money, slam poet and 2008 Hollywood Grand Slam Champion, chose a fortune cookie and used the enclosed fortune to inspire her work. After a few days of furious work, she passed his work off to a painter, and in turn, the painter created a piece of art that was passed on to the next artist - and so on, and so on...

The Nonsense Company performs Great Hymn of Thanksgiving / Conversation Storm, an award-winning pair of intricate and urgent pieces blurring the boundary between experimental theater and avant-garde music, both written by internationally-known composer and company member Rick Burkhardt. The Company performs from February 5-15, with previews on February 3 and 4, at the Interborough Repertory Theater (IRT), 154 Christopher St. 3B.

Shortened Attention Span Theatre and Wide Eyed Productions are proud to present a special post-show Talk-Back with Martin Denton of nytheatre.com, following the January 25th, 3pm matinee performance of The Spin Cycle: 5 Plays by Jerrod Bogard. The Talk-Back will include playwright Jerrod Bogard and the directors of The Spin Cycle. The Spin Cycle will be performed Thursday through Saturday at 8pm with a special Sunday matinee performance on January 25th. Tickets for this and all performances can be purchased at www.TheaterMania.com, or call 212-352-3101. Tickets are $18.00.

The production, produced by Horse Trade Theater Group and Grayce Productions, will play at UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place) November 5-8 & November 13-15 at 8pm, November 9 & 16 at 7pm.

Horse Trade Theater Group will present a Grayce Productions Revival of VICE GIRL CONFIDENTIAL by Todd Michael, Directed by Walter J. Hoffman. Previews begin November 5th with an official opening of November 7th. The play will conclude on November 16th.

THE BLOOD BROTHERS theater company will present THE MASTER OF HORROR, the third installment of their BLOOD BROTHERS PRESENT series at the Endtimes Underground at The Gene Frankel Theatre in New York. This year, with THE BLOOD BROTHERS PRESENT…THE MASTER OF HORROR, writers James Comtois, Qui Nguyen and Mac Rogers and directors Pete Boisvert and Patrick Shearer stage new plays based on short stories by the Master of Horror, Stephen King.